Patents by Inventor Yangying ZHU

Yangying ZHU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Enhanced flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels with structured surfaces
    Patent number: 10867887
    Abstract: A two-phase microchannel heat sink can be a fluid channel including a bottom wall including a superhydrophilic surface with microstructures and a side wall including a surface that is hydrophobic relative to the superhydrophilic surface of the bottom wall. When heat flux is applied to the fluid channel, a liquid film on the bottom wall is maintained and nucleation of boiling occurs only on the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Evelyn Wang, Yangying Zhu, Kuang-Han Chu, Dion Savio Antao
  • Magnetically tunable microstructured surfaces
    Patent number: 9610580
    Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is a dynamically tunable structure including an elastic layer, and a plurality of ferromagnetic micropillars disposed over the elastic layer. The elastic layer may have an elasticity that is greater than an elasticity of the micropillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Evelyn N. Wang, Yangying Zhu, Rong Xiao
  • ENHANCED FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN MICROCHANNELS WITH STRUCTURED SURFACES
    Publication number: 20160033212
    Abstract: A two-phase microchannel heat sink can be a fluid channel including a bottom wall including a superhydrophilic surface with microstructures and a side wall including a surface that is hydrophobic relative to the superhydrophilic surface of the bottom wall. When heat flux is applied to the fluid channel, a liquid film on the bottom wall is maintained and nucleation of boiling occurs only on the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Evelyn WANG, Yangying ZHU, Kuang-Han CHU, Dion Savio ANTAO
  • MAGNETICALLY TUNABLE MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES
    Publication number: 20140352382
    Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is a dynamically tunable structure including an elastic layer, and a plurality of ferromagnetic micropillars disposed over the elastic layer. The elastic layer may have an elasticity that is greater than an elasticity of the micropillars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Evelyn N. WANG, Yangying ZHU, Rong XIAO